Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center, whose health system serves a large geographical area and offers complex quaternary care, telehealth has been an innovative solution to several care delivery problems. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM. Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell, Inc. Although they are usually the first person patients see when they walk into a pharmacy, the important roles that pharmacy technicians play […]. The article Turning To Technology To Deal with The Nationwide Shortage of Pharmacy Technicians appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Best Buy ramps up focus on home health care by acquiring Current Health. hlandi. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 10:17.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Omri Shor from @medisafeapp on the topic “The Evolution of Patient Support and Medication Management.” Digitization in healthcare is changing the look and feel of patient support […].

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

GV, Andreessen Horowitz invest in Sprinter Health to scale up at-home lab, testing services. hlandi. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 18:52.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Hospitals have spent more than $3B on personal protective equipment since COVID-19 began. dmuoio. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 12:52.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In a recent speculative piece by Jon Hoeksma on Digital Health, he looks as what a national deal with Epic could look like for NHS. The speculation was started when current director of transformation at NHS England, Ian O’Neil, met with Judy Faulkner from Epic. Plus, Tim Ferris, new head of digital transformation at NHS […].

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Oshi Health , a virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics, today announced it has secured $23M in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Flare Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures with a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

AmeriHealth Caritas to enter ACA exchanges in North Carolina with new product offering. pminemyer. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 12:30.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Anthem Blue Cross and Providence St. Joseph Health are accelerating value-based care by using a new technology partner, Vim. The partnership enables the organizations to scale their tech solutions for better payer-provider collaboration to ultimately improve healthcare performance in California. – Vim offers an EHR-integrated application suite that includes Digital Scheduling, Care Gaps, and Referral Guidance solutions, and more.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Acquisitions can save failing hospitals and fuel new services, AHA argues with new report. dmuoio. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 17:38.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Babyscripts , a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics, today announced a strategic partnership with Nuvo Group, a femtech startup commercializing INVU by Nuvo™, an FDA-cleared, remote fetal monitoring and management platform. InVU by Nuvo features a user-friendly wearable sensor band that gives physicians an inside look into the womb, remotely to drive critical diagnostic decisions wherever the patient is. – By integrating Nuvo’s INVU technology into B

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Physician groups warn nearly 10% in Medicare cuts could stall shift to value-based care, force staff cuts. rking. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 16:49.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – During the opening keynote at Cerner Health Conference , Cerner’s new President and CEO, David Feinberg, M.D., expressed the need to improve the usability of health records to help patients avoid unnecessary tests and medications, enable nurses and doctors to eliminate errors and predict what’s to come to improve the health of communities around the world. – “Healthcare technology needs to be reliable, understandable, complementary – we all must work to addres

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The AHIMA Foundation officially launched its Health Literacy for Health Equity initiative today. Over the next few years the Foundation plans to address the challenge of low health literacy from both the consumer/patient side as well as from the provider side. It is only through this two-front approach that the problem will be abated. AHIMA […].

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The acquisition builds on Best Buy’s previous investments in senior care and remote patient monitoring.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our panel leaders will discuss what they have learned by attending all the sessions at HIMSS. They will offer their impressions and opinions for how Lenovo can best adapt and transform the way we got to market and productively enable our customers. We want to be the number one technology provider that Healthcare leaders think about when making new technology decisions.

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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Southern states have low insurance coverage, high costs, new report finds. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 16:33.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The ScanWatch was first unveiled in January 2020 and is currently on the European market.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Biden admin allows Colorado to make gender-affirming care an essential health benefit. pminemyer. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 13:33.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Also: Fitness app FitOn raises $18 million, and virtual pediatric platform KixCare completes a $2 million seed round.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Urban Institute: Making enhanced ACA subsidies permanent could extend coverage to nearly 1M. rking. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 14:59.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The SoftVue system is intended to be used in addition to digital mammograms to screen for cancer among patients with dense breast tissue.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2021

CommonSpirit Health CEO Dean announces plans to retire in 2022. dmuoio. Tue, 10/12/2021 - 14:06.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The deal will provide guaranteed capital to fuel the firm’s rapid growth plan.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

License verification, especially nursing license verification, is essential to ensuring that only the most qualified practitioners are seeing your patients. And according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the U.S. with more than 3.8 million RNs nationwide. Additionally, of all licensed RNs, 84.5% are employed in nursing.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Following the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) announcement of 2020 data detailing the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) , Medicare’s largest alternative payment model, Bamboo Health , formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, announced its national network of ACOs generated over $1 billion in total shared savings. – Bamboo Health’s ACO partners succeed under value-based care programs like the MSSP by utilizing their Ping

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our Upcoming Executive Briefs. We understand the challenges that healthcare providers are facing especially as the Delta variant surges and continues to strain the healthcare system and frontline workers. Add to that, President Biden’s recent executive order mandating that all healthcare workers be vaccinated. Join our Chief Compliance Officer, Donna Thiel for a series of three Executive Brief sessions on Wednesday, October 20 ; Wednesday, November 3 ; and Wednesday, November 17 , to discuss the

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2021

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced a partnership with Nemours Children’s Health, one of the nation’s largest clinically integrated pediatric health systems, to create a unified data platform designed to accelerate Nemours’ mission to transform children’s health through a holistic care model. – The partnership will integrate and activate clinical and claims data from across the health system to enable intelligent point-of-care analytics that c

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